--- title: Bro, what did Ralph say about the bell and the abbot? — Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralp… · tree and pragmatics description: Bro, what did Ralph say about the bell and the abbot? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 357 «Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralph the Rover cuts the abbot's buoy bell and his own ship is wrecked on the rock» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/357-pg18442-part17/t11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralp…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/357-pg18442-part17/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralph the Rover cuts the… Bro, what did Ralph say about the bell and the abbot? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ralph · **What happens:** say · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 357 «Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralph the Rover cuts the abbot's buoy bell and his own ship is wrecked on the rock» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/357-pg18442-part17/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t11:1 # text = Bro, what did Ralph say about the bell and the abbot? 1 Bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obj _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 Ralph Ralph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bell bell NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 abbot abbot NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Ralph | | | | | about the bell and the abbot; Bro *vocative* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} It was the abbot's ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t11:o1:1 # text = It was the abbot's 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 abbot abbot NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | It | | | | | 's the abbot | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} Just a joke ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t11:o2:1 # text = Just a joke 1 Just just ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} It was his own joke ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t11:o3:1 # text = It was his own joke 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | It | his own joke | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} A prank ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t11:o4:1 # text = A prank 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 prank prank NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. 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